The "What Do you drive?" thread....

[mr_rye89]

Originally Posted by MadMan

Change your oil every 3000 miles, no excuses. Just did timing chains, cylinder head, valves, and rod bearings on one of those. Guy owns an oil change shop, still too stingy to change the oil, it was like black mud. 60k miles. When I called for parts, the parts guy had a list ready to go - a good indicator that a lot of those motors fail in that way. Incidentally, it was a 40 hour job, something like $7000. And not something to entrust to any old joe schmoe.

Actually, your motor might be a bit different. But still. Come to think of it, I had a Passat with that motor that we did chains on, as well. Yes it has two chains and a belt.

Also, direct injection, so you'll need to clean the valves every, oh I don't know, maybe 10k miles. Buy a can of Seafoam, the aerosol kind for cleaning intake valves, and use that.

Yeah I'm pretty strict about 3k oil changes, for my forester they (Subaru) originally recommended 5k oil changes and it caused lots of dead turbos and spun bearings.....there's also a little screen in the oil feed for the turbo that likes to disintegrate and kill the turbo. The engine in the Audi has a belt for the cams/water pump and a little chain for the balance shaft/oil pump I think. This one I bought came with a shop manual lol. And I'll look into the valve cleaning, its probably due......